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"B. Lafferty" wrote in rec.games.chess.politics...
You've effectively killed the Issues Forum. A whopping 12 posts so far
today. No real issue substance either. And people scoffed when I
compared you guys to the censors in the USSR. Good job, fools.

Hillery will probably beat me to posting this, but I will nonetheless
write.

Brian, this is penned with the very greatest possible respect. Truly.

It is more than hard to comprehend that you once held the post of Judge.
Yes,
were merely an ALJ, and ALJs have been characterized as being to real
judges
as $6-a-day shoeshine boys are to managers of footwear conglomerates.

But even for an ALJ, your feckless, extravagant, arrogant, unbalanced,
usually
tasteless, exaggerated prima donna outbursts go beyond what is acceptable.
A
certain degree of disruption is healthy for a board like the Issues Forum.
What you did, and do again, isn't. It's only a matter of time before the
scales fall away from Donna's eyes - if they have not already fallen away.

I will let you on to a little secret, in case Sam, who must know this
already
because he gets to hear things even before they happen (and sometimes they
do
not ever happen, but you'll wait forever for Sam to apologize or retract),
has
not shared this with you, his trusted backer in this his last great
adventure.

When the absurd lawsuit was filed, board members and others (I don't know
how
many, but I recognized most of the many email addresses it was carboned
to)
anonymously received instructions on how to post or email and still
maintain
deniability. In a nutshell, one sends an email to a gateway remailing
service
based outside the country, that strips out all the ID from the email
except
fake sender-specified material, holds the comms for a random time and then
sends it out. The only hitch is that the posts autodelete after a week.

One can and should speculate at the motive/s and identity of the person
who
sent out the instructions. The best place to hide a flake is a snowstorm -
if it was that type of flake. All the email addresses that I recognized
belonged to people who do not like what Sam does. I do not like what Sam
does and that is no secret to those who know me, Sam included. Why did the
poster let us see all the other recipients (he could have used
blindcarbon)?
The only reason I can come up with it is we would be more likely to have
confidence in his method if we could see that many others had been given
exactly the same method. It doesn't fly if it can be worked out who we
are.
I knew some of this already so it was not a big step for me. I do not know
how many others are getting even this way- at least one besides me (unless
that other is Sloan himself, with him you can never know).

If this is news to you, well, you were an outsider a year ago and you are
still an outsider. Why don't you find another hobby to waste other
people's
time on, Brian? You had apparently never heard of us in 2006. But we could
revert to that time, when we had never heard (of) the Jackass?

Did you know that there are more than three times as many ALJs in the United
States as regular judicial judges? In fact, most ALJ decisions, such as
mine, were appealable to the "regular" courts. I'm happy to say I never had
a decision reversed.

When sitting on the bench one has the duty to judge fairly in accordance
with statute and procedure. One does not have the luxury of the advocate
pressing his clients case to throw the bull**** to see if any sticks with
the judge or jury.

ALJs can significantly affect people's lives. I terminated public employees
for corruption which resulted in the forfeiture of pension funds and medical
treatment for the respondent and respondent's family. I also delayed a
suspension from the work place so as to keep a respondent's child covered by
medical insurance so that the child could undergo cancer treatment.

The bottom line is that regarding chess, I'm not acting in the role of
judge. I have the luxury to advocate and muckrake all I want. :-)